Re: [Pythoncard-users] Awfully Quiet Around Here

[Roman S. <rn...@on...>]

As for myself, I am learning Zope. And I really like some things about it
which probably will be appropriate for PythonCard too.

I like the way Zope stores it's objects in a hierarchy of containers
(named folders) and how preperties and objects could be easily reused if
stored above or in this folder.

Also, I like the idea of Zope management interface. It will be nice to
have a mode where logic objects reveal themselves visually. For example,
if PythonCard app needs database connection to do a query, it could
use one defined in the enclosing containers.

Hypercard did acquisition by adding stacks to the path. Zope does the same
by using folders.

PythonCard could go further by allowing drop-in objects. Programmer could
drop a logic object into stack and use it's functionality.

To summarise, in Zope I saw a way to have logic, presentation and
content consistently present in the organized manner with simple
property acquisition rules. So, probably, in PythonCard it could be
beneficial to have something like this.

That was just an idea. I do not know how this could be visually presented.
But some container-structure browser could be built, no doubt.


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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